Benny's job

[jbor]

And that the "Great Sewer Scandal of 1955" was simply that there were 
alligators in the sewer. I know it's mundane, but ...

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>From: <jbor at bigpond.com>


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> I've always thought that Zeitsuss was after volunteers from within "the
> Department" to go on his Alligator Patrols, i.e. that it was one of several
> or many specific tasks within the NY Sewer Department which is being
> allocated to the workers on a voluntary, or first come first armed basis. It
> seems like a contract labour sort of thing (cf 'On the Waterfront' perhaps).
> I think there's no question that Benny and the boys are getting paid. Why
> else would they be doing it?
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>>From: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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>> Of course volunteers can be paid or unpaid (thank you
>> Dardanelles), but I don't think Benny is getting paid. Some
>> crazy accounting system, poor guy, but it does keep him off
>> the Streets.
>>
>> PAragraph 5 of Chapter 5, omen number two boys, VV again....